Pamela, I think the signs look wonderful. I am not on the committee for Historical Markers, but I know our County Historical Society is active in replacing old Markers that are gone or unreadable. And they are paying around $1800. to $2000.00 for each Marker. They have to do fundraising to achieve this for each marker. So this is a bargain and I'm so glad the Ind. Historical Bureau has thought of our cemeteries and has given us this opportunity. One trustee had signage drawings done for a cemetery that a neighborhood has been restoring, his estimate was $6,000, and no one will see these signs from the road. Doubt these will happen. I talked to one gentleman this week about working on his cemetery and putting up a sign that states we restored this cemetery. He was afraid we would put up something tacky. These are very clear in projecting the area is historic. This was the cemetery that our County highway crews parked the asphalt paver on top of his cemetery. Maybe a sign would have helped.~ This was a Wagon Train Cemetery. I've seen notes that state there were 125 possible burials there. We now have 4 stones left. I love this OPPORTUNITY! Lou Ann Clugh Tippecanoe County Pioneer Cemeteries Group See our cemeteries at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~intippec/tcem.html

Hello, $1800-2000 sounds high for replacement stones. We have had some replacement stones made for $200 each. Follow this link and look in the first picture for the stones of John F. Woods and Isaac K. Woods. These cost $200 each: http://www.usroots.com/~jmurphy/gibson/gibcem/pat_marsh_creek/joseph_woods.htm Here is another one, the Keen Field stone: http://www.usroots.com/~jmurphy/gibson/gibcem/wr_field-morrison/keen_field.htm Another one, for Mary Polly Gordon is here: http://www.usroots.com/~jmurphy/gibson/gibcem/pat_marsh_creek/christopher_gordon.htm In the upper left corner of the picture is another one, with a little fancier carving and a tablet-shaped top. It cost a little more, but still quite a lot less than $2000. These were made for us by a monument maker in Evansville. Ernie At 07:53 AM 9/7/01, you wrote: >Pamela, >I think the signs look wonderful. I am not on the committee for Historical >Markers, but >I know our County Historical Society is active in replacing old Markers that >are gone or unreadable. And they are paying around $1800. to $2000.00 for >each Marker. >They have to do fundraising to achieve this for each marker. > >So this is a bargain and I'm so glad the Ind. Historical Bureau has thought >of our cemeteries and has given us this opportunity. > >One trustee had signage drawings done for a cemetery that a neighborhood has >been restoring, >his estimate was $6,000, and no one will see these signs from the road. >Doubt these will happen. > >I talked to one gentleman this week about working on his cemetery and >putting up a sign that states we restored this cemetery. He was afraid we >would put up something tacky. These are very clear in projecting the area >is historic. This was the cemetery that our County highway crews parked >the asphalt paver on top of his cemetery. Maybe a sign would have >helped.~ >This was a Wagon Train Cemetery. I've seen notes that state there were 125 >possible burials there. We now have 4 stones left. > >I love this OPPORTUNITY! >Lou Ann Clugh >Tippecanoe County Pioneer Cemeteries Group >See our cemeteries at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~intippec/tcem.html > > >==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== >THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- > "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families >are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is >undisguised. This is a cemetery. > "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, >historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. > "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved >in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - >not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family >memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. > "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of >yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery >exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." > --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA